1676 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1676.

Events

• March 2 – George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is given its first performance, in London.^[1]
• May 22 – Samuel Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House.^[2]
• December 11 – The first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer is given in London.^[1]
• December – The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz arrives in Hanover to take up a post as "councillor" and librarian to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg.^[3]

New books

Prose

• Robert Barclay – Theses Theologiae
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
• Charles Cotton – Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
• Ann, Lady Fanshawe – Memoir (of her deceased courtier husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet)
• Domingo Fernández Navarrete – Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China (An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral, and Religious)
• Gabriel de Foigny – La Terre Australe connue (The Southern Land, Known)^[4]
• Thomas Tomkinson – Truth's Triumph. A book on Muggletonianism.
• Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler, 5th edition

Drama

• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (?) – Zoroastres
• John Crowne –The Country Wit
• Thomas Duffet – Beauty's Triumph (masque)
  • • Thomas d'Urfey The Fool Turned Critic
  • Madam Fickle
• George Etherege – The Man of Mode
• Nathaniel Lee – Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar
• Thomas Otway – Don Carlos, Prince of Spain
• Edward Ravenscroft – The Wrangling Lovers
• Thomas Rawlins – Tom Essence
• Elkanah Settle
  • Pastor Fido
  • The Conquest of China by the Tartars
  • Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry)
• Thomas Shadwell
  • The Libertine
  • The Virtuoso
• William Wycherley – The Plain Dealer
• Agustín Moreto
  • El lindo don Diego
  • No puede ser...
  • El parecido en la corte
  • Verdadera III parte de comedias

Births

• June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
• July 4 – José de Cañizares, Spanish dramatist (died 1750)
• October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar and monk (died 1764)
• Unknown dates
  • Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (died 1752)
  • Samuel Bownas, English Quaker religious writer (died 1753)
  • William Gwavas, English lawyer and writer in the Cornish language (died 1741)

Deaths

• March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, English patron and correspondent (born 1590)^[5]
• July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer and cleric (born 1604)
• August 17 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
• September 2 – Edward Worsley, English religious writer (born 1605)
• October 25 – Justus Georg Schottel, German grammarian (born 1612)
• November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
• December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (born 1603)
• December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English polymath (born 1592)

Notes and References

1. Book: 1676 . The People's Chronology . Everett, Jason M. . Gale Group, Inc. . 2006.
2. Web site: C. S. . Knighton . Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) . . Oxford University Press . 2004 . Online . 2013-07-15 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/21906.
3. Book: M. B. W. Tent. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus. 17 October 2011. CRC Press. 978-1-4398-9224-4. 111.
4. Geoffroy Atkinson, The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700, 1920 p. 36.
5. Web site: Anne Clifford . English Heritage . 26 March 2019.